#stand

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself. ↗

— Balthazar Getty

#care #good #i #i can #just

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#either #meaning #meaning of #music #understanding

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#got #i #knew #know #life

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#blues #i #i am #ignorant #like

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#commercial #daughter #majority #man #people

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#easily #his #i #made #me

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#angry #barry #done #full #go

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#enriches #genius #school #solitude #understanding

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her